A new, user-friendly human resources and payroll system, Workday, is anticipated to go live by the end of March. The new cloud-based system will provide Cornell faculty and staff members with a single location to view and – in some cases – update their personal, job and benefits data in real time.

“The Workday team and our human resources partners are making every effort to align Workday with Cornell’s needs and anticipate issues before launch,” said Lyman Flahive, senior director of human resource information services. “That’s why the Workday team recently moved the launch date from the beginning to the end of the first quarter.

“We made a promise to campus that we wouldn’t roll out the new system unless we were able to provide for the diverse needs of the Cornell community, which not only includes Workday functionality itself but connectivity between Workday and other systems, and recognition of systems implementation fatigue across campus,” said Flahive.

The Workday system will take the place of the PeopleSoft HR/Payroll system for faculty and staff (student and alumni affairs data will still reside in PeopleSoft) and will replace the need for Employee Essentials and Leave Accrual Reporting System (LARS). The system will also integrate data from Kuali (financial data), Kronos (time worked data) and Taleo (job application data), among other systems. All these systems working together will help improve workflow, standardize procedures and expand real-time data access.

Workday will also provide supervisors with the rich data needed to make holistic workforce decisions through data management and forecasting capabilities that include targeted dashboards and standard reports. Supervisors will only need to access one location to retrieve such data as the number of people in their unit, recent hires, position data and recent retirements or transfers; and analyze it for future planning.

All users – whether employees, students or supervisors – will be able to access the information they need through Workday’s self-service capabilities.

Open forums and online and in-person trainings are being scheduled. Demos and general information can be found at http://www.workday.cornell.edu/.